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Eamon

Forum of Independents - Competition 2009 / Eamon / Ireland 2009

Little Eamon still loves sleeping in bed with his mother Grace, something his father, Grace’s boyfriend Daniel, doesn’t much appreciate. He just feels left out and frustrated by Grace’s lack of interest. When the family is forced to spend a week’s vacation at the beach, their problems increase. Unfolding at a gentle pace, this unostentatious film is a promising feature debut with an original outcome that makes it well worth viewing to the very end.

Eamon Eamon

Synopsis

Little Eamon still loves sleeping in bed with his mother Grace, something his father, Grace’s boyfriend Daniel, doesn’t much appreciate. He just feels left out and frustrated by Grace’s lack of interest. Eamon basks in his mother’s favor, which abruptly ends when the family is forced, during Eamon’s school vacation, to spend a week at the rugged Irish coast. There, Grace spends whole days on the beach basking in the sun, ogling a tanned and muscular surfer, and feeling that her boys are just in the way. This story of three disparate characters unfolds at an unhurried tempo with minimal essential dialogue; everything important happens under the surface or inside the protagonists. The director leaves room for the viewer to ponder their motivations and the reasons why they are unsatisfied. She gradually and very gently shifts interest from Grace to Daniel and finally to young Eamon, whose unexpected gesture ends the film. Unostentatious and impressionistic, the movie’s original outcome makes it worth watching to the very end.

About the film

85 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere

Director Margaret Corkery / Screenplay Margaret Corkery / Dir. of Photography David Grennan / Music Colin J. Morris, Miriam Ingram / Editor Mairead McIvor / Producer Seamus Byrne / Production Zanita Films / Cast Robert Donnelly, Amy Kirwan, Darren Healy / Contact Zanita Films
www: www.zanita.films.com/eamon.htm

About the director

Margaret Corkery

Margaret Corkery (b. 1976, Cork) graduated from the Scottish Film School of Napier University, Edinburgh. She also holds a master’s degree in art from Westminster University, London. For the past two years she has worked with Zanita Films shooting commercials and television dramas. Her short films have received numerous awards at international festivals: Killing the Afternoon (2005) competed at the Berlin IFF. A year later she shot another short entitled Joyride (2006). Eamon is her feature writer-director debut. She is currently working on several projects, including a horror film and a comedy for kids.

Contacts

Zanita Films
Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, County Wicklow, , Bray
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 276 9541
Fax: +353 1 276 0020
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Seamus Byrne
Producer

Margaret Corkery
Film Director

Amy Kirwan
Actress

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